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4 <Tljc Wonting iflctos Morning News Building, Savanna*, Ga. TUIBSD\Y. MAT TO, ISST. Rcgistei'cd at the Post Qflier in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in rhe year, and is served f o sulwseribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 ct'nts a week. Si tut a month. $5 (X) for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning Nkws, i>y mail, one month, Si 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The. Morning News, hy mail, six times a week Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. Tho Morning News. Tri-weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and ’Saturdays, three months. $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates mad** known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting —Ancient landmark Lodge No. 231, F. &A. M. SPECIAL Notices— The New Brick Company: Festival by a Division of the King's Daughters. Cheap Column Advertisements- -Help Want ed; Employment Wanted: For Kent; For Sale; Personal: Lost; Miscellaneous. Hotels. Etc.—Boarding, 144 Madison Avenue, Sew York. For Shaving —Pear's Soap, at Strong's. A Great Ixvextios— Biddisons Fluid Burner. Notice op Dissolution, Etc.— Ham & Haar. The Real Estate Market— C. H. Dorsett. Eligible Lots for Sale — George W. Lamar. Pope Catlin's Schedule For the Yacht Race; Family Excursion; For Doboy, Etc. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. City Delivery op the Morning News—Wil liam Estiii. Auction Sales— Choice Plants, by R. H. Tatem; Underwriter’s Sale, by I. L). Laßoche's Sons; Grits and Four, Elegant and Costly Furniture, by D. R. Kennedy; Pictures, by J. McLaughlin & Son. “I like dogs,” says CoL Ochiltree, once of Texas. “The more I know of men the bet ter I like dogs.” What have the dogs done to merit such punishment? Out West a cyclone picked up a barrel of whisky and dropped it into a prohibition county. Of course, the anti-Prohibitionists in that county are now more firmly con vinced than ever that prohibition does not prohibit. According to ex-Senator Dorsey Paris financiers believe that the production of gold Ls falling off in comparison with its in creasing use and the demand for it as money. Now is a good time to boom Geor gia gold mines. Gov. Forakcr, of Ohio, is described by an admirer as “one of the rising, growing and brainy young men west of the Alleghenies.” If his party nominates him for President he he will be one of the squelched young men of his neighborhood. A redheaded Texan thinks it ridiculous for Lord Wolseley to write about the war between the States. “He never fought any thing but naked niggers and half-starved, half-armed barbarians,” says the Texan, "and then they mostly got the best of him.” This settles it; so let the newspapers and magazines give Lord Wolseley a rest. President F. Doniiniquez, of the munici pality of Iturbide, Mexico, has issued a proc lamation requiring every male resident of the city to wear jiantaloons from and after June 5. Those who fail to obey the procla mation will lie liable to imprisonment from one to three days and to a fine of from 50c. to $3. Thus does civilization knock the picturesque into a cocked hat. The thirteen ex-members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who resigned at Castlers land, county Kerry, rather than continue in assisting at the work of eviction, are still in New York. They receive many visitors every day, and are overrun with offers of employment. The men tejl doleful tales about the evictions in county Kerry. Their stories of cruelties are almost incredible. Poor Blind Tom has again become a bone of contention among the different persons who claim the right to profit by his wonder ful musical gift. Mrs. EUso Bethune has filed a petition in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago to get possession of Tom, alleging that he is wrongfully detained hy James N. and James A. Bethune. If Tom were not an idiot he would doubtless wish that he was as completely unknown to fume as his brother, who is a dray-driver in Macon. Mr. Faulkner, chief of one of the Pension Department bureaus, and Civil Service Commissioner Egerton, are both from In diana The former is opposed to the civil service law, while the lutter, of course, is in favor of it While they were discussing the subject, the other day, Mr. Faulkner lost his temper and exclaimed: “See here, Eg erton, you and I know everything. You know everything hut one, and that is that you are a fool, and I know that.” It is said that the two gentlemen do not speak now as they pass by. Public servants ought never to let their angry passions get the better of them. A netv Jean D'Arc lias arisen in France, but so far she has failed to gather many fol lowers under her standard. Her name is Marie Costierg. She is of humble origin, but seems to be fairly well educated. She professes great piety, and claims that an angel told liar that her mission was to “save France" by bringing about the return of the < xpolled Princes. At Paris sho bought S'J,OOO worth of furniture arid forgot to pay the hills. lu consequence :;ho was arrested and looked up. This interruption in her career as the savior of France will probably teach her that it is not always wise to fol low tbo ndvicc which she thinks is that of angels. Gen. Charles U. Furlong, who is now in New York, expresses himself in mournful terms regarding the vulgarity displayed by some of the American women who visit Eu rope. “There are women nud women, of eourae.” he says, “but it is pretty hard on an American to feel and to know that we are judged rather by those who are vulgar than by those who are otherwise. I have aeon women of this country at balls and re ceptions so eager to display their wealth that they wore diamond rings over their gloves.” Too had! As it has become the fashion for Congress to manage private property perbapa that body may be induced to manage all the affairs of the people. In that event a commission to inquire into the qualifications of Americans about to depart for Europe might be appointed, with ixiwer to compel all vulgar persons to stay at laouou. The Commission Bill in Florida. About the most important bill pending in the Florida Legislature is that creating a railroad commission. It is agreed that a commission is needed, hut there is a marked difference of opinion respecting the charac ter and extent of the authority with which the commission ought to be clothed. The aim, of course, ought to he, and doubtless is, to promote the best interests of the whole State. There may be a few who are con trolled by selfish motives. They may desire a commission liecause they think that by means of it they can advance their own in terests, or they may have grievances of some sort, and seek only to injure the railroads. Such persons keep their time reasons in the background and pose as patriots who are influenced solely by a desire to benefit the people. They can be distinguished generally by their pretended anxiety to protect the people against railroad oppression, and by their activity in behalf of legislation calcu lated to burden railroads with such restric tions as to make their prosperity doubtful. The Legislature ought not to permit itself to lie influenced by persons of this charac ter because they are the enemies of the State. It ought not to lie forgotten that the rail roads have contributed largely to the pros perity which Florida now enjoys. They have not waited for the country to build up so as to afford them a paying business. They have been pioneers, and towns, farms and groves have followed the paths they have marked out. Without their aid much of the State that is now dotted with happy homes aiid thriving towns would still be comparatively a wilderness. And there is another thing that should not lie forgotten. It is that railroad build ing is only just beguu in Florida. There are many projected roads which, it is prob able, will tie built in the near future, and many others will lie projected and built within a few years if the conditions are favorable. The future of the State depends largely upon railroads. Its products are of the character that require quick and prompt transportation to market, aiul railroads, therefore, are more of a necessity there than they are in some other States whose pro ducts are less perishable and better able to stand wagon transportation to railroads. Florida as yet has little capital of her own with which to build railroads. All she has is needed to open up farms and make im provements upon her lands and in her cities. Capital for building railroads must come from the great money centers. Capitalists, however, are not going to put their money into enterprises of which they are deprived the control, and from which they see no prospect of getting an adequate return. They are willing to take sotno chances, but they are not willing to invest their money where they receive no encouragement, and where the laws are based upon the idea that they are public enemies againt whom it is necessary to erect legal barriers. There are two kinds of Stato railroad commissions, and it would be well for the Florida Legislature to study both carefully lief ore passing any railroad commission bill. One kind is clothed only with such author ity as is necessary to prevent the railroads from making unjust discriminations, and from enforcing regulations which amount to oppression. It hears complaints and makes such decisions as are just to both the people and the railroads. The other kind virtually takes the management of railroads out of the hands of those who own them, and undertakes to do the managing itself. The former kind has been found to give entire satisfaction to all concerned, while the latter has always been, and will, doubt less, continue to be a source of more or less misunderstanding anil trouble. There are indications that the Florida Legislature fully appreciates the responsi bility that it assumes in passing a law to regulate rail reals, and also that it under stands that the conditions in Florida are so different from what they are in those States where the commissions have almost absolute control of the railroads that it would be a heavy blow to Florda's prosperity to accept their commissions as models. The danger is that the aggressiveness of those who are looking out for themselves rather than for the State will cause the Legislature to lose sight, to some extent, of the fact that what the State wants is a commission that will encourage rather than retard railroad building within its limits. Immigration to Georgia. Some of our State exchanges are mani festing much interest in the question of im migration. The fact that a large number of the immigrants who have arrived in this country since the beginning of the year had from SSOO to $'3,000 each has attracted special attention. The common sentiment is that such immigrants as these are the kind wanted in the South, because * thev would purchase lauds instead of hiring out as laborers. How to induce immigration to the South is a question that has often been discussed. One of our exchanges suggests that in the case of Georgia the General Assembly ought to provide a fund for advertising the State's advantages; The suggestion amounts to nothing, because, under the present State constitution, no such an appropriation can be made. Efforts have been made t ine and again to induce the General Assembly to take some action in the direction of bringing the advantages the State possesses to the notice of immigrants, but they have all failed. Nothing but a radical change in tbo consti tution will secure the action desired. If Georgia is to profit by the tide of ira migration to this country it must lie by the efforts of her people in their capacity as pri vate citizens. A few days ago the Morn ing News suggested a plan by which the State’s advantages might be cheaply ami effectively advertised. A union between the railroads and landowners for that pur pose would bo productive of gratifying re sults. Here is another suggestion: At the meeting of the farmers which Commissioner Henderson has called let the matter of im migration be thoroughly discussed, ami then let n plau bo put in operation tor bringing to Georgia the class of immigrants desired. No doubt Commissioner Henderson will be glad to lend his aid to whatever plan may be devises!. Some time ago the Secretary of War tele graphed Gov. Heaver, of Pennsylvania, in quiring how much time it would take to concentrate the volunteer troops of that State on Lake Erie should war Eng land occur. Gov. llaver replied that the entire force could be comrtitrafo and at any point on the lake within twenty-four hours alter tho order was given. If it should be come necessary to concent rate the volunteer troops of Georgia at Savannah most of them could be brought to the city in twenty -four hours, lint some could not lie brought under five days. The Hon. Potiphar I’eagreen, of the General Assembly, au, uu tv u >ai uw volunteer troo|is of I inn and ii ■ in..' .. 10 ui t no. , M,:M THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1887. Mistaken Leaders. There are in Georgia just half a dozen Re i publicans who have sufficient influence with j their party to be regarded as loaders. Re cently they have displayed unusual activity. They have conferred with each other in At lanta, in Macon, and perhaps in other lead ing cities of the State. These conferences have been quietly conducted, hut their ob ject has finally been disclosed by a partici pant who was too'full not to overflow. According to his story an attempt is to lie made to elect four Republican Congressmen in Georgia next year, and also to carry' the State for the the Republican Presidential candidate. The four districts in which it is projiosed to make a fight are the Fifth. Sixth, Seventh < nnd Tenth. The half dozen leaders already mentioned, who declare that they have been “patiently watching and waiting,” profess to Is-lieve that in these four districts they will have a considerable white Republican vote, the entire negro vote, and by no means a small vote from Democrats who favor a protective tariff. The hope of carrying the State for the Republican Presidential ticket is based upon the belief that President Cleveland will be nominated by the Democrats, and that his alleged un popularity in Georgia will cause a small vote to be polled for him. By bringing out the full white Republican vote, the negro vote, and the Democratic vote supposed to be op posed to President Cleveland, the Republi can managers claim that a major ity for their national candidates will lie the result. Mr. Blaine is expected to bo the Republican Presidential candidate, and already one of the above half dozen leaders has visited the Maine statesman to advise with him concerning the Scheme that has lieen concocted. Mr. Blaine must have given cheering advice, for the leader in question declares that “we intend to throw the Democrats by a move that will leave them breathless.” There is not the slightest prospect of Re publican success in Georgia, and the pretty scheme so carefully prepared is doomed to collapse. The Seventh district was once doubtful, but now, outside of Bartow county, it is strongly Democratic. The Fifth, Sixth and Tenth districts are solidly Democratic, and Republican candidates would lie buried out of sight in them. In the four districts there are comparatively few Democrats who favor a protective tariff. We venture the assertion that if a meeting of such Democrats were called the number that would respond would be so small as to excite nothing but ridicule. As to President Cleveland, ho i3 supported by twenty of the twenty-one daily newspapers published in the State, and by all the Demo cratic weeklies. This is evidence of liis popularity, and further evidence may be found in the fact that the Democratic vot ers of the State never utter a complaint against him. If he is nominated next year Georgia will give him an overwhelming majority. The Republican party in Georgia is dead, and there Ls no probability of its resurrec tion. The half a dozen leaders who are spending money and wasting lime in run ning about the State to confer with each other would find it more profitable to stay at home and let politics alone. • The Next Ten Years. From ISGo until 1877 most of thauaivs papers in the South paid but little attention to any other subject than politics. This was not unnatural, because Hie tßrtikpp.v political condition of the South w.'U ifj ab sorbing interest. A struggle for political rehabilitation was going on, and it was generally believed that there could be no substantial prosperity until the State gov ernments were wrested from the con trol of uneducated negroes and dishonest carpet-baggers. \ In 1876 it was hoped that good government would be restored to all the Southern States by the election of Mr. Tilden to the Presidency, but the hope was not realized. Nevertheless, in the succeeding year the reign of the negro and the carpet-bagger ended, and politics at once became a secondary concern. In all parts of the South the newspapers began to call attention to the necessity of material development, and in 1878 the good effect was already apparent. (it is now ten years since the Southern States began in earnest the work of develop ing their material resources, and the result is all that could lx> desired. The increase in wealth has been wonderful. New railroads have been constructed, mines opened, fur naces established, and even new cities have sprung into existence and grown with aston ishing rapidity. Business in all its branches has prospered, mid scores of men who in 1877 had nothing are now the possess ors of fortunes. The South is no longer “fenced in to itself,” as an English writer once said, but she has opened her gates to all the world.' In the great financial centres of the North the South attracts almost a$ mA h attention as the West, and Northern capital is always ready tor investment iu honest Southern en terprises. What is in store for the South during the next ten years i It is not hazarding too much to say that the most remarkable de velopment ever witnessed in this country is in store. The Southern people will always take proper interest in polities, hut they will not become so deeply interested as to let it be their first concern. Their energies will lie devoted to their material interests. They mean to make their section the espial of others in wealth, and they by no means intend to neglect their higher interests. At the eml of the next ten years they w r ill have better schools ami better eollegos, and ignorance wall bo greatly decreased. In the work they have in hand the South ern people will gladly accept aid. They will welcome the thrifty from nil parts of the world. They will lie especially glad to welcome immigrants from the North ami West, whatever may be their politics. Cut whether their numbers are swelled by im migration or not, the Southern iample are determined to place their section abreact with the North and West. Wa.shidgt.ou is anxious for the national drill to begin. Sho wants to replenish her puree. It is estimated that during last week tho jieoplo of the city spent SIOO,OOO to gratify their love of pleasure. Some of the items are these: Hose ball, $10,000( Patti, #7,000: races, #50,000; Kinina Abbott, $5,000; the circus, #“0,000. Merchants com plain t hat their business lius fallen fiat. If the drill should fail to draw large crowds, about the only alternative l ift to tho people Is to pray that President Cleveland will call an extra session of Congress. Experienced parliamentarians soy that the contest to be made by Senator Lucas •or l<& neat of Senator-elect Faulkner, of jWert-Htirginin, will amount to nothing. The JpapfHfeikite aro all In favor of the latter. CURRENT COMMENT. A Southern Man for Vice President. INom the Montgomery Advertiser (Item.) The Cleveland Pin indeater looks upon the suggestion that the Democrats nominate a Southern man for Vice President as sentiment ally good, but as foolish as tar as practical poli tics is concerned. We fear so, ive fear so. Brass Rather Than Iron. From the Mobile Kegistcr (Dem.) The brilliant and popular William Wirt once said of himself: “I have long iieeu convinced that there is not enough iron iti my constitution for a public character—l mean for a politician aiming at glory." Brass meets the require ments of the occasion nowadays rather than Iron. Advice to Workingmen. Prom the New York Herald (Ind.) Now you are entirely justified in getting in dignant at the grasping avarice of a monopoly. The only question is how the evil, which is patent to everybody, can lie remedied. By declaring that we should get rid of it by hand ing the railroad and telegraph system over to the government, you do not hit the bull’s-eye. In wiping out one social corruption you create another which Is even greater, and that is bad policy. Where the Monument Belongs. From the New York Evening Sun (Ind.) Why should any Union soldier who faced and beat back Pickett's division at Gettysburg ob ject to placing the monument commemorating this event at the spot where the Confederates approached nearest the Union lines? Of all places that is the spot to put it. There was the turning point of the war. There was the high water mark, and there the magnificent bravery of the most splendid attack and repuiseß in the ' history of war reached its climax. Here, then, both Union and Confederate soldiers can meet on a common ground of utmost bravery. The spot is historic. It ought to be dedicated in honor of both sides who battled there. BRIGHT BITS. “I know Washington was a great Injun fighter,” said tittle Tommy, “because he cut down his father's Cherokee.’”— Texas Siftings. ORpnEUs was a musician whose music had power to draw rocks, etc., toward him. The modern street musician has the same power.— Tiil-ihts. Phrenology is a fraud Look at a man's troasers. If they hag at the pockets he has money, if they bag at the knees he has brains.— Burlington Free Press.. An exchange mentions angels and politics in the same breath. It has a mingled odor which reminds one of an amalgamation of violets and garlic.— Memphis Avalanche. Church Committee to successful candidate What salary would you lie content with? Without donation parties, jn,000; with them, $1,500. —Burlington Free Press. “Have you heard ‘Sing to Me Only Once Again?’" she asked sweetly. “No, but I shall be delighted.” he said, with unnecessary fervor .—Detroit Free Press. The statement that the Nihilists are going to nliandon the dagger and the bomb gives rise to tlie suspicion that they have hired Arthur Rich mond to write letters to the Czar.—Pittsburg Dispatch, Joaquin Miller? it is said, has purchased a tract of land at Fruit Valley. Cal., and is going to establish "a literary colony" there. It is possible that t hey may take to raising chestnuts. —Boston Post. “I have a remarkable story to tell you, Jones,” exclaimed Smith. "Tell on," replied Jones. After the narration Smith asked: “Is that true, or did you see it in a Chicago paper?” - Tid-Bits , Discontented Female— Humph! You know perfectly well I might have married young De- Million if I’d wanted to. Husband—Yes, and he’s brought home drunk every night in a cab. “Well, he comes in a cab,anyhow.”— Omaha World. % Gridley —Lend me fifty, old man. will you? Bryant—Certanly. Can you use one of my checks? Gridley—Easily; how white of you! Bryant—Don't mention it. The favor is on your own side, for I haven’t had a cent in the bank for a week— Tid-Bits. Boston Young Lady (in the country)—And did you really paint the barn yourself, Uncle James? Uncle James— Yes. Boston Young Lady —By hand? Uncle James—Sartin. Boston Young Lely (fetching her breath)— Think of it, a hand-painted bam ’. —New York Sun. She— lsn’t that the Van Amnnge carriage, Monel? He—Yaas—or rather it was. She—Was? He—Yaas; I understand that owing to a re cent bahd brweak in a popular stock the trap has wosumed its maiden name—Brewster, y’ nah.— Tid-Bits. A yoi'no poutcian was talking to a charming Kentucky girl at a reception the other day and he became profound and prophetic. “I think. Miss Mary, he said, trying to fix her attention, “that there will Vie a war of races some day.” “Doyou!” she replied, innocently; “well, if there is I'll bet ail I've got on the Kentutky horses.”— Washington Critic. “Ole pel,” he exclaimed, as lie leaned against a post at the market and looked at the police man who hail come up, “d'ye ’spose I'm drunk?” "Looks that way,’’ “Does, eh? Shay, you doan’ know human na ture, you doau’. Can’t you tell ’er difference 'tween man gradually dyin’ of a broken heart an'a filer full 'er beer? Go to’er aunt, thou sluggard!” —Detroit Free Press. Miss Cockett —Yellow roses are supposed to indicate tlirtatiousness and moss roses mean love, do they not. Mr. Neversmile? Mr. Neversmile—So I'm told; and white roses mean silence. Miss Cockett —Well, what do these large cab bage roses and Jacks mean? Mr. Neversmile—Bankruptcy, Miss Cockett, bankruptcy every time.— Harper's Bazar. PERSONAL. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bernett will visit Europe this summer. James X. Tagoakt, who stole $25,000 in Phila delphia. has been traced to one of the Indian reservations. Capt. Boycott, the original Boycott, is now the agent of the Flixton Hall estate, near Bun gay, in Suffolk. That enthusiastic Mugwump, George Fred Williams' was born in Leipsic. ran away to sea when a boy and became a sea Captain. He goes to Germany every summer. Prince Loris Estkrhazy. of Austria, who is now in New York, boasts that lie has killed nineteen tigers in the jungles in India, and eight of these he killed while hunting on foot. Tiis leave of absence expires on May 25, and he is in a hurry to get home on time. Empress ' Evgenis still liears the traces of great and delicate beauty, almost rendering her age a mystery. Slender, erect and with a su perb figure, she is At once to lie recognized as a grande dame. Her complexion is admirably preserved: her bair, not yet white, still shows tints of pale gold. Mme. Pai>p has completed the fiftieth year of her editorship of the well known Belgian news paper, lx ■ Journal <le Bruges. The paper was founded by her husband, who was an eminent geographer, and is one of the most important dailies m the kingdom. Another Belgian jour nalist will in a few weeks eetpbrate Ids jubilee. This is M. Ketfs. the musical critic, who has been on the Independence Beige staff since IHB7. Dr. Chari.es K. Garrette. author of the poem entitled the “Fire Fiend," long credited to Poe because of a lilerai-y hoax, was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and he died ut Washington, I). 0., in October, p*q. It is re markable that many intelligent people should yet accent the "Fire Fiend" as one of Pop's poems, when the late Dr. Gardette, its author, published ft in a volume entitled “The Fire Fiend and Other Poems," more than twenty years ago. There are some interesting names found in the list of the Fiftieth Congress. Curious baptismal names abound. Among them are Jehu, Hilary, Adonlram, Iwuite, (Tiembunco, Beriah and Weltj . In surnames the triules are well repre sented. Then* is a Baker, a Fisher, a Weaver, a e.Kipor. a Mason, a Ulover, a Hunter, a Miller, a Brewer, a Granger, a Turner, a Tavlor ami a Sawyer. For the first time in years there is no Itobinaon in Congress The colors represented are White, (h ey and Brown. There in only one Hogg among the iwmbti i, Hcandai, seems to be Ihe order of the dnv at the Austrian court, Archdukes and Arch duchesses have beou in tiffs anil worse -in numerable, and now there Is trouble In-tween Hie Crown Prince Rudolph and pretty little Crown Princes* KWnbouio Indeed, they have lieen on the verge or actual ami final separation Hut the Emperor lias personally Interposed as n iieaee'iiuker, ami Instead of leaving the naughty Rudolph for good, Stephanie will only deprive lii;n of her presence for a few weeks, while nlm goes home to Belgium to pout and Is* consoled by papa and mamma. Then If lie is real good I"’'mu come on to Brussels tn June, and tiiey will go to England together to see the fireworks at Uui jubilee. MONUMENTAL CHEEK. An “American Sovereign” Interviews Prince Leopold or! Real Estate. From the Chicago Tribune. A tall, thin, intellectual looking man of severe aspect addressed one of the attendants of Prince Leopold as that distinguished foreigner and party arrived at Lincoln, Neb., last Wednesday on their way eastward. “Is Prince Leopold in this car?" he inquired. The attendant replied that he was. “.Vs a citizen of America who has always ad mired the Prince,” said the tall man, "it would aifurd me sincere pleasure to be introduced to him and to pay him the respectful homage that an American sovereign may, without loss of dig nity, accord to a representative of the mightiest military power on the continent of Europe." The attendant assured the American sovereign that the Prince was traveling incog, aud did not wish to hold public levees in the privacy of his own car, but he would see his .highness and ask if a stranger who appeared so sincere and re spectful could not l>e accorded r.t least the pleas ure of an introduction to the Prince. He went in and returned in a few moments to say that Prince Leopold would make an exception in his case. The tall and stately American admirer of European royalty followed the attendant into the ear and was introduced to the grand-nephew of Emperor Wilhelm. "1 consider this the most fortunate moment of my life, your highness." said he. “I have long wished for an opportunity to meet a mem ber of the royal family of Germany, for whom I entertain the most profound re spect, and I assure your highness that the sentiments I express are held by mil lions of niy countrymen who have watched the career of your august relative, the Emperor. My name is R. Phelps Hoskinson and my resi dence Kansas City. Knowing the unscrupulous nature of the persons who deal in real estate in the city of Lincoln, 1 trust I may take the liberty of putting your highness on your guard against them. They would cheat an innocent stranger out of his eye-teeth. There is not a town lot in this dead old town that is worth the paper it would cost to put a mortgage on it. I have come all the way from Kansas City with no other motive than to assure your highness that if you wish to invest in a live town I have a number of comer lots in the most eligible places in Kans ” In less than five seconds Mr. R. Phelps Hos kinson, real estate dealer of Kansas Citv, was flying wildly out at the front door of the car and capering convulsively down the steps to the tumultuous propulsion of two athletic Ger mans. A WAVE OF SOAP SUDS. Strange Scenes on a Mysterious Lake in the Nevada Mountains. From the Virginia City Enterprise. Mono Lake is full of soda, borax and other minerals in solution. The waters of both Owens and Mono lakes is a natural detergent. The dirtiest and greasiest of clothing is made clean in half a minute by simply rinsing the article in the lake. It lathers naturally when agitated. When there is a high wind a wall of suds three or four feet in height is seen along that shore upon which the waves beat. This quivering wall—in which are seen all the colors of the rainbow and as many beau ties as are shown by the kaleido scope—would grow to a height of ten or twelve feet before toppling over, but that when it at tains a certain height the winds catches it up and w-afts great balls of it far inland. Some of these floating balloons of lather are as big as a flour barrel. As the prevailing winds are from the west, al. vegetation on the western shore of the lakes is killed for a distance of many rods. When there are unusually high winds the bails of suds are blown so far inland as to reach clumps of willows and other bushes, the leaves of which are then seen to lie scorched as though by fire. The water, just as it comes from the lakes, would make tin excellent shampoo for the use of barbers; and the solid matter resulting from evaporation would make a fine washing powder for laundry use. Story of the Woolly Horse. Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record. The allusion in this month’s installment of Hay and Nicolay’s “Life of Lincoln" to the nickname “Woolly Horse" applied to Gen. Fre mont in the campaign of 1856 recalled to my mind a story told me by an old Washingtonian about the origin of the strange soubrequet. It seems that after Fremont had first announced to the world his discoveries in the great West a Philadelphia showman of a tricky and specula tive turn undertook to exploint Lieut. Fremont’s discoveries and at the same time make a little money for himself. So he came down to Wash ington, Congress lieing then in session, and, hiring a shop on theavenue, proceeded to adver tise and exhibit "Lieut. Fremont's woolly horse, captured by the gallant explorer in the very heart of the Rocky Mountains, at the risk of his life.” Of course, it was only an ordinary every-day horse, with patches of wool stuck on. But it took, and the showman began to make money on it. One fine day Senator Benton, Fremont’s father-in law, heard of the humbug, and started out vow ing to drive it out of town before evening. Tak ing a brother Senator with him he marched at once on the enemy's shop. The showman, .who was standing outside the door, and who knew him perfectly well, had the impudence to go right on w ith his lecture. He even went so far as to say to the crowd, “Here is Lieut. Fre mont's father-in-law—Senator Benton. Won’t you walk in Senator, and take your friend with you. It won't cost you a cent." "Come inside,” said Benton, sternly, handing him $1 and strid ing in with Ms friend; “w here Is this animal? " "Here he is," said the showman, beginning at the beginning of his lecture again. “Stop:" said Benton in the tone that had often made the Senate chamber ring; "if you don’t take that fraud out of this town before dark I'll make you w ish you had never been born.” The impudence of the man was frightened out of him by Ben ton’s severity and earnestness. “I'll go," he said, and went that evening. But it was only to exhibit the “woolly horse” elsewhere, and to give Fremont a nickname which his enemies thought particidarly appropriate. Bright Men Who Will Lose Their Jobs. From the Chicago Mail. John X. Abbott, who only a few weeks ago was taken from a lucrative position on one of the branch lines and given a eommissionership of one of the pools by the Western roads, will, of course, tie out of a job on April 3. So will all the other pool commissioners, including Midg ley. who gets 812.000; Blanchard, who gets $18,000: Kink, who gets $25 000: Richardson, who gets $7,500, and scores of others scattered all over the country. Abbott, when he gave up his place, demanded a five-year contract with the roads making up his pool, at $lO,OOO a year, and they gave it to him. Most of the other high-priced commissioners also have contracts. Now. what will the roads do with all these high priced men? Will they let some of their own officers, who have no contracts, goto make room for these commissioners, who will have to he paid whether they have anything to do or not? Then there are probably 50,000 railroad clerks working in the offices of the different pools over the country who will all be set adrift. Railroad employes have had a pretty easy lime of it for years, no matter whether the roads paid divi dends or not, but it ivailv looks as if some thousands of these railroad clerks would be walking this summer. The Boston Girl’s Idea of Heaven. From the Boston Herald. Korfie people have the queerest Ideas of heaven but after Miss Phelps’ peculiar views of the un knowable nothing extravagant astonishes the agnostic or the full fledged lieliever. The most realistic vision of the future state to which we are alljemling was revealed tome last Saturday night while en route to the symphony concert. Two rat her pretty girls were snuggled into a corner of the car that 1 happened to take, anil as the only vacant strap dangled above their heads I had to hold on to it and overhear a conversation not intended for a third person. However, I shan't give the girls any uneasiness by repeating what was not in tended for publication, but one remark made by the prettier of the two struck me with particu lar force, it was so deliciously frivolous. “Well, to-morrow's Sunday," observed No. iin a tone of regret. “Yes," assented No. 2, “shall you go to church?” “No-o," hesitating. "I think has such horrid ideas about heaven. Now, I like to think you have everything you want in heaven. To my mind it ought to be a place of unlimited long kid gloves.” The Cock That Crows at Dawn. I’ve heard the clang of dinner-gongs, the en gine's whistle shrill. The proving notes that echo from the Asher’s fearful horn, The prlma donna's soulful shrieks, the lrngplne's nasal trill, But nothing ilkn the racket of the cock that crows at dawn. Hi* voice, of comae. I* always hoarse, his notes are seldom true, But yet they reach me from afar, and stun my sleepy ears; My rest Is gone, oppressed, forlorn; my head aches through and through. What would I give if I could slay the race of chanticleers! Yet reckless of his rueful course, in egotistic vein The breaker of my sweet repose goes crowing on and on, While stars grow dim and sunbeams tell that day has com* again, The village hi ars the clamor of the cock that crows at dawn- Uvrcs Boon. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There is a politician in St. Ixjuis named Rain water. and another in Denver named Drink water. but neither of them believes in prohibi tion in theory or practice. “The “finds" of the remains of lake dwellers in lake Constance, Switzerland, are reported to have been very good this year owing to the un usual low less of the waters of the lake. Personal item from the Estelline (Dak.) Bell: Frank R, Harrison, son of our respected towns man, William H. Harrison, left on last evening's train for Sioux Falls. His many young friends await his return after he serves his fifteen-year term in the penitentiary at that place. It is said that the greatest speed of toboggans on the Albany, N. Y., chute was ninety-three miles an hour. The timing calculations were carefully made and repeated again and again by a civil engineer. II the}' are not fallacious the toboggan is the fastest of vehicles and out strips even the iceboat. Joan STAnuER.of Kiehville. Mich., is cuririously afflicted with a liability to entirely lose his memory. More Ilian once he has passed whole nights within the hailing distance of his own house, fearing to move, as he was totally unable to recall the direction to go, or even how his own home looked or was situated with regard to the surrounding country. The cashier of a Chinese bank tried to leave with the funds for Japan or some place, on the American plan, the other day, but it is not be lieved that the custom will become popular. The government walled up the cashier in a cell to starve to death, and chopped the heads off all his family. And next fall they are going to decapitate everybody in the empire bearing his name. Cocoanit growers say that each tree in a grove produces one nut a day, or 365 in one year. Owing to the great height of the trees it is im possible to pick the nuts, and they are allowed to hang till they fall. The natives gather them up ami carry them to the husking machines, where the nuts are stripped of the thick outside shells. A nut is most delicious Just after it has dropped from the tree. One of the Scotch papers has recently con tained several letters on the subject of the birthplace of Pontius Pilate, one writer actually maintaining that he was born at Garth Castla, in Perthshire: a legend which it was attempted to support by the statement that his father was Roman Governor of Perthshire; but this is manifestly nonsense, as the Romans did not in vade Caledonia till nearly fifty years after the Crucifixion. Gen. Botti-anger has just instituted what the French papers describe as an excellent measure in the way of cavalry drill. In the middle of the night the bugle sounds in barracks, and all of the men have to turn out, saddle their horses and be ready to take the field. They lea ve their quarters for some fixed destination," the squad rons are then separated into groups, each com manded by a subaltern officer, and ordered to any point in the capital at his discretion, re turning to barracks at a given hour. Proposals have been made to the governments of Denmark and Sweden for constructing a sub marine tunnel for a railway under the Sound between Copenhagen and Malmo. The tunnel, as planned, would have a total length of be tween seven and eight miles. The ground to l>e worked is represented as closely resembling that in the channel between England aud France, and is said to offer no difficulty to the execution of the work. Che total cost of con struction. it is estimated, will not exceed §5,000,000. Dave Reed, the minstrel, says that in old times the company had a stone slab on which they burnt the cork the usual way, then they would mix the cork with lard into a thick paste, then they would redden the lips and whiten the eyes, after wMch they would apply the cork. Washing up was the work and was accomplished in the following manner: First, an application of lard, then they would take an old table knife and scrape off all they could, then more lard and a vigorous rubbing with a rag. Altogether the lard and rag were a necessity for three straight heats, with a finishing of soap and water. All this required just one hour of hard labor. In the old town of H., in Vermont, about the beginning of this century, lived a man named C„ to whom the unique idea had occurred of following the order of the alphabet in naming his children. In accordance with this plan No. 1, a bo.v, was named Ashley Brigham C. The brief existence of No. 2 was shown by her name. Deathborn Epithenia. Then followed Foster Gilman, Hilarity Juno, Kathirn Lelona, Melina Nolilla, Obadiah Polander, Rosena, Serviah Trusty, and when this point Was reached the old gentleman died, leaving a girl without a name, and his widow- finished the list by skip ping the intervening letters and calling the un named baby &. A New York paper, hard pressed, has the fol lowing as a special from Washington: “Once, at a White House public reception, when the crowd was immense, Sir Edward and Lord < ieorge Montague, the last a son of the Duke of Manchester, tried to make their way into the Blue Room along with the general crowd. The policeman on duty waved them back. "Do you know, sir,’’ said Sir Edward, in his most im portant manner, "that I am Sir Edward Thorn ton?’’ "And I." said Lord George, who was a meek, inoffensive little fetlow, "I am Lord George Montague.” “Go ’way," responded the policeman; “don't tell me two such tittle grass hoppers as you are Sir Edward Thornton and Lord George Montague.” A cobrespondkxt writes: The more we saw of Cuban women the more unqualifiedly we ac knowledge their wonderful beauty. We hardly saw a homely woman in Havana, and we saw some beautiful beyond description. There is a sameness about the beauty that might in the collective grow a little monotonous, but an indi vidual instance is incomparable. Even if the face is not otherwise fine the lustrous eyes can light up and glorify it. and the eyes of the Cuban women are like stars of the summer night and the velvety black masses of hair bound about their heads and thrust through until a golden bodkin, after custom immemorial in old Spain truly woman's crown of glorv The sensuous perfection of their forms in soft and graceful outlines, the witchery of the dark eyes and al luring lips full and rich, the sly grace of the fan or cigarette, the dainty, arched feet, with gold embroidered black stockings, and that most beautiful of all ornaments for the head, the mantilla, have often been celebrated in song and story and poetry, but they never received any more praise or admiration than they deserved. The following Is the description of a dincing lesson on the stage of the Paris opera: All the ladies are dressed in cotton or flannel, which leaves their arms and shoulders bare, with a garment down to their knees, and boots like the cothurnus. The wealthy among them have costly fur coats; the poor hava thin, shabby Shawls or waterproofs to Wrap“hemselv<-s In after the performance is over. On the stage two dim lights are burning; several gentlemen stand about, one of them emrvinga baton. The orchestra consists of two violins. The maitre de ballet, beating the floor with his baton, calls out, “Now, then, ladies, silence, if you please! We begin again. The second tableau. Am! assuming the attitudi which his pupils are to assume, he shouts, “Attention! l'he prison scene and the prisoner s stop y t) u are chained - you—you, socre bleu! look toward the sky! toward the sky, I tell you. Cross vour hands and put one foot forward. Unfasten your hands. Quickly! put, your foot back.” Not unfrequently the baton is used for other purposes than merely to beat, time, and the lesson goes on amid scolding and cursing All the dancers take part in it, from the very young the poor, and the innocent, who try to embellish themselves with a bunch of violets or a piece of bright ribbon and a pair of brass earrings, to the grand ladies sparkling with diamonds, from behind the dim scenes, like Indian idols in the depths of the pagodas of Juggernaut. Jay Gould's project of establishing a railroad town in the West reminds the Philadelphia Rec ord of the story of the summary mauner in which he wrought vengeance upon a community tb.-u bail incurred his displeasure. When the great, strike was on one year ago on the Missouri Pacific and other Western lines controlled by Jay Gould, the town of Sedulia, Mo., was a thriving place. It was what is commonly kuown as ti railroad town. Car shops were located there, and Redalia Imre about the same relation to the Gould railroads in Missouri that Altoona hears to the Pennsylvania railroad in Pennsyl vania. During the strike the storekeepers and traders of the town supported the railroad em ployes and called mass meetings in their aid. Travelers who now pass the place are told that Jay Gould thought, the Kedalia people had gone further than the occasion demanded He hecaine incensed at their activity, and it is reported that when the Story of their doings was laid before him be ex claimed: “Within a.year I will turn that town Into a churchyard.” The strike ended in a fail lire. Jay Gould ordered the removal of the cur shops and all of his railroad property. Within u mouth the town of Sedalia liognn to show signs of decay. As the trains roll by and pas sengers nolo the absence of lire, train men tell them that the place Is Jay Gould's churchyard. The revenge of the great millionaire is complete. 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